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    By H.B. Drake
    London   John Lane the Bodley Head
    9" by 6" 2-225 [3]pp
    The very scarce first edition of HB Drake's discussion of Korea in the late 1920s, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs.
    By H.B. Drake

    1930 Korea of the Japanese

    London   John Lane the Bodley Head
    9" by 6" 2-225 [3]pp
    The very scarce first edition of HB Drake's discussion of Korea in the late 1920s, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs.
    £450.00
    : 1kgs / : 867F15
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

    Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three monochrome photographic plates. Collated, complete.

    The work of Orientalist and scholar H.B. Drake, the author of a small number of non-fiction works and fantasy tales.

    Drake discusses the Japanese emperor, Imperial Japan's rule over Korea, and offers a criticisms of colonial Korea's educational system.

    A December 1942 article in an Imperial Japanese newspaper discussed multiple British and American people who were caught by police committing the crime of trying to buy this work at a bookshop in Jongno, Seoul.

    With two pages of advertisements to the rear.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Fading to back strip, with significant spotting to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, but with the spotting throughout.

    Very Good

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